Siphonaria stellata Blainville, 1827

Siphonaria stellata Blainville, 1827 View in CoL

This species was described by Blainville (1827: 297) and attributed to ‘de Roissy’ from an unknown origin. It is a secondary junior homonym of Patella stellata Helbling, 1779 and therefore invalid (Art. 57.3 of the Code). The name has subsequently been referred to by Hanley (1858b: 153) and Paetel (1889: 429). Hubendick (1946: 48) and Morrison (1972: 56) treated it as a junior synonym. The listing of S. stellata in Adcock (1893: 11) as a synonym of S. luzonica (from SA, Australia; misidentified S. zelandica ) is incorrect and a reversal of priority. Figures of ‘ S. stellata ’ RS in Hubendick (1945: figs 42, 53) are here attributed to S. javanica Figs 6H, I View FIGURE 6 . Shells of ‘ S. stellata’ figured in Hubendick (1946: 91, pl. 3, fig. 20–23) are of various accepted species, such as S. viridis (fig. 20 from Thursday Island, fig. 22 from WA) and S. javanica (fig. 21 from Mindanao, fig. 23 from Java). A shell figured in Satyamurti (1952: 252, pl. 34, fig. 2a, b) resembles Helbling’s figure of P. stellata . Morrison (1972: 56–58) treated S. stellata Blainville 1827 along with 29 other nominal species as a synonym of S. laciniosa . The identity of S. stellata listed in Ravenish & Biju Kumar (2015: 38) is unknown (unfigured, no reference specimens).